- #1 KILLA
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Tangerine
Windows
KILLA is a 3D adventure mystery with multiple endings. Valhalla, our protagonist, seeks the killer of her mentor, a mentor she treasures like family, venturing to an unknown island. Discover the culprit on this enigmatic island and embark on a journey of revenge.
Why similar: Investigation 15.7%, Psychological 13.2%, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Mystery 9.9%
- #2 呪いの穢れ唄 鳴海龍也の回奇録
96% matchPositive95% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: BogeymanGames
Windows
You have lost your memory and wake up in an unpopular Japanese house. Strange phenomena occur. Eerie singing voices coming from inside the house. Uncover the mystery of the cursed house with your partner.
Why similar: Investigation 14.8%, Psychological 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Mystery 11.3%, Point & Click 11.1%
- #3 Welcome To The Survey
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Peanut Dev
Windows
A psychological horror game, where you answer a survey for a chance to win a cash prize
Why similar: Investigation 21.1%, Lore-Rich 15.2%, Mystery 14.4%, Dark 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.7%
- #4 Nightfall Cafe
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LynoharaPub: MILOSIRIS STUDIO
Windows · Linux
An atmospheric, eerie point-and-click adventure. Play as Ana, a botanist venturing into a misty forest with buried secrets. Prepare bizarre meals for cryptids to obtain information and items. The more she investigates, the stranger things become — and someone doesn’t want her there.
Why similar: Psychological 21.5%, Investigation 20.9%, Hidden Object 12.8%, Dark 10.5%, Mystery 9.9%
- #5 Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
94% matchVery Positive89% of 3,231 reviews2023
Dev: silver978Pub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A short psychological adventure about a stressed girl who wants to explore her ceiling.
Why similar: Psychological 27.2%, Point & Click 13.8%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Mystery 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%
- #6 Kindred [High Tide]
93% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: Victoria RafaelianPub: Captain Edge Studios
Windows
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Investigation 20.9%, Mystery 13.5%, Psychological 12.7%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%
- #7 Ancra
94% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2021
Dev: For7s
Windows
A narrative driven, puzzle-horror game. Solve cryptic puzzles, embrace or evade vengeful specters, decide who to trust and unravel a mystery.
Why similar: Investigation 17.9%, Psychological 16.9%, Point & Click 13.4%, Dark 10.5%, Mystery 10.3%
- #8 Paris Mysteries: Man with Ivory Cane
92% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Cateia Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore atmospheric Parisian locations, collect clues, combine items, crack ciphers and solve dozens of brain-teasing puzzles and mini-games to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Investigation 18.8%, Psychological 14.7%, Hidden Object 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Point & Click 13.1%
- #9 ABYSS OF THE SACRIFICE
91% matchVery Positive83% of 265 reviews2020
Dev: INTENSEPub: D3PUBLISHER
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Five girls meet in an isolated underground city. As they slay and betray each other, what fate awaits them at the end of their journey? Hope? Or despair? Enjoy an immersive story, fully voiced and boasting multiple endings!
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Anime 16.2%, Investigation 15.4%, Dark 12.2%, Mystery 11.6%
- #10 Time Crack
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MelTheMelPub: Nightfall Narratives
Windows
A thriller and mystery visual novel about broken trust and the search for truth, when a high-school student is accused of his parents’ brutal murder. Every choice might bring you closer to the truth... or end in tragedy.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 20.5%, Psychological 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Mystery 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #11 Beacon's Bluff
90% matchMostly Positive70% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: Robot Invader
Windows · Mac
Beacon's Bluff is a 2D pressure puzzler with horror elements. Keep the beacon's light alive and survive your shift by solving intriguing puzzles. Become engrossed in this discerning horror puzzler.
Why similar: Psychological 22.6%, Investigation 18.3%, Dark 13.5%, Point & Click 12%, Mystery 12%
- #12 The Test: Hypothesis Rising
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 5,928 reviews2020
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 42%
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Psychological 19.2%, Investigation 19.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Mystery 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #13 Unaware
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aces Games
Windows
Gather your strength and find information about your whereabouts. Explore the area. Find and assemble all the puzzle pieces. This way you will learn about the dark past.
Why similar: Investigation 27.8%, Lore-Rich 18.7%, Horror 12.3%, Mystery 12.1%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #14 Jurnal Risa: Dark Destiny
88% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Happiness
Windows
Witness the resurrection of the foretold nemesis of the Jurnal Risa family, which was never revealed before. Unveil its dark destiny within this horror-adventure game. This is all about family. Tale of Jurnal Risa, as recounted to me by Risa herself.
Why similar: Investigation 17.9%, Lore-Rich 16%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Mystery 11.8%, Anime 10.9%
- #15 a pet shop after dark
87% matchVery Positive89% of 399 reviews2022
Dev: npckc
Windows · Mac · Linux
PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.
Why similar: Point & Click 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Psychological 12.8%, Dark 12.5%, Hidden Object 8.8%
- #16 Observer The Cat
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Horror Anomaly
Windows
🐾 A 2D anomaly-spotting horror. Watch cozy rooms, memorize every detail, and report anything unusual. Watch. Notice. Report. Survive until 06:00 — and don’t trust the cat.
Why similar: Psychological 24.6%, Investigation 18.4%, Hidden Object 12.5%, Mystery 11.9%, Dark 9%
- #17 Dark Room
86% matchMixed57% of 44 reviews2020
Dev: Lexip Games
Windows
You woke up in a Mysterious place you have never seen before. Can you Find a way out? Solve Puzzles and find Hidden objects to uncover the Dark Story of the place you are trapped in.
Why similar: Psychological 21.2%, Investigation 19.7%, Mystery 12.2%, Point & Click 11.9%, Hidden Object 11.4%
- #18 Dreambound
85% matchVery Positive96% of 89 reviews2024
Dev: Two and a Half Studios
Windows · Mac
Mysterious deaths. Dreams that are reality, and reality that is a dream. Will Noah be able to move forward and solve the mystery—or will he give in to the demons of his past? A story-rich BL mystery visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological 17.8%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Mystery 13.1%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Anime 10.6%
- #19 SEEING THINGS
84% matchVery Positive96% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: Robot Invader
Windows · Mac
Full tilt surveillance horror. Keep your eyes locked on security cameras for an outrageous collection of horrific anomalies, suspicious movement, and the occasional T-Rex. Observe, detect, survive!
Why similar: Investigation 18.2%, Hidden Object 16.9%, Psychological 16.2%, Dark 12%, Mystery 9.5%
- #20 Cross The Boundaries
82% matchVery Positive99% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: AlfredProsPub: Ziel Graywords
Windows · Linux
This is a Touhou Fangame. Maribel Hearn is a girl with unusual experience with ghosts and supernatural beings. In Cross The Boundaries, you will solve riddles while trying to stay alive, and looking for a way out of the nightmare.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.2%, Psychological 18.9%, Lore-Rich 15.9%, Anime 14.1%, Mystery 12.3%
- #21 RUNT
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Grimtaste StudiosPub: DreadXP
Windows
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you play as Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Investigation 17.3%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Psychological 11.1%, Dark 10%
- #22 KOEWOTAYORINI / 声之寄托
84% matchVery Positive86% of 977 reviews2018
Dev: あみそ組Pub: Pujia8 Studio
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 261.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
“喂喂,求求你啦!救救我!” ——你接到这样一个电话 发出这样的求救,给你打电话的人,是一名被监禁的少女
Why similar: Psychological 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Anime 14.5%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Horror 8.4%
- #23 Confinio: Reality Prison
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Enthariel Games
Windows
Confinio is an intriguing visual novel that delves into your sensations as you embody the protagonist who has just awakened in a prison with no memory. Make decisions, solve puzzles, interact with the environment, use objects, interrogate people, all to yourself and uncover the enigmatic reality.
Why similar: Psychological 20.2%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Anime 11.9%, Hidden Object 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #24 金鱼症候群 Goldfish Syndrome
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: California Beef Noodle
Windows
In this post-pandemic psychological visual novel, players embody psychotherapist Honda, drawn into a neural imaging project targeting teens. There, Honda meets Natasha, a mysterious girl whose "world" unfolds like a spider's web, disrupting Honda's "calm" life. "Don't you think so, Dr. Honda...?"
Why similar: Psychological 29.8%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Anime 13.1%, RPG 9.3%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #25 Midnight Therapy
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Cointinue Games
Windows
A powerless, FAKE therapist facing raw truth. Balance financial pressure and patients' collapse in this narrative RPG. Use speechcraft and the "Mind Reading Spell" to dive into minds and shatter cognitive dissonance. Are lies your weapon... or redemption?
Why similar: Psychological 22.3%, Investigation 17.2%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Visual Novel 11%
- #26 The Apocalypse Sacrifice
79% matchVery Positive95% of 247 reviews2024
Dev: FOG GAMESPub: INDIECN
Windows
As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years. Every choice you make will shape the story and become part of your personality test. Will you be the hero who saves the villagers, or will you sacrifice them to create your own legend?
Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.6%, Point & Click 13.5%, Psychological 12%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Mystery 10.5%
- #27 Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alperen Torun
Windows · Mac · Linux
As a gothic detective, you solve mysteries with your colorful sidekick. Everyone you meet in this bizarre world has a peculiar disease. A unique talent, or a mere curse? You must get to the bottom of it all. Investigate murders, search for clues and complete the puzzle.
Why similar: Investigation 19.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Anime 14%, Mystery 12.3%, Point & Click 11%
- #28 These Nights Alone
80% matchPositive82% of 38 reviews2020
Dev: ryArt
Windows
Follow Alice during the investigation about her husband
Why similar: Investigation 21.5%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Point & Click 14%, Mystery 13.6%, Multiple Endings 13%
- #29 Pale Light
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Hushberry Games LLC
Windows
Pale Light is a hidden object horror game. You play as a medical examiner searching for clues on five bodies the FBI brought you. Reason suggests self-administered poison, but as you search you begin to see things that reason alone cannot explain...
Why similar: Point & Click 19.2%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Investigation 17.5%, Hidden Object 16.1%, Mystery 8.8%
- #30 Decide 4 God
77% matchPositive96% of 45 reviews2025
Dev: Miracle Moon
Windows
The final entry of the Abime Series. Six intruders and six captives share a high-tech prison where their moral dilemmas may lead them to a fate worse than death. Can they overcome the wiles of Empathy Systems? What dark secrets lurk behind that institution? When does knowledge become a curse?
Why similar: Psychological 21.5%, Investigation 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Mystery 11%
- #31 What Is Going On?
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Genie Games
Windows
“What is going on?” is a anomaly detection & survival horror game. Players take the role of a lone resident who must endure five nights, using limited flashlight and CCTV to survive. Strange anomalies and entities invade the home, and the player must detect, defend, and hide to stay alive.
Why similar: Psychological 22.7%, Investigation 19.6%, Hidden Object 16.1%, Mystery 14.3%, Horror 10.2%
- #32 The Terrible Persistence of Memory
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Pixels and Pins Studio
Windows
When you wake from a deep sleep, the first thing the goblin doctor asks is "What's your name?" The problem is: you don't know. Retrace your steps. Find what you've lost. Piece together who you are from the strange and incredible things you can do
Why similar: Investigation 21.8%, Lore-Rich 18.7%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Point & Click 12.7%, Hidden Object 12.2%
- #33 Khitarii and Khimoshi
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XeroStryker
Windows
Kitari and Kimoshi is a story about two girls who meet for the very first time through unusual circumstances. Click through the manga pages, and make choices that affect the flow of the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20%, Lore-Rich 17.5%, Anime 16.2%, Dark 14.8%, Multiple Endings 13%
- #34 Mystery Island:Missing Amy
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: TAPROMANCE
Windows
The adventure begins when Ada, a young explorer, receives a mysterious selfie from her sister, who in fact disappeared months ago. ...... The background of the selfie is a mysterious island with blood-red sea water. Ada decides to go out on the sea to look for her sister……
Why similar: Investigation 19.6%, Point & Click 14.1%, Mystery 13%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Lore-Rich 11%
- #35 Silent Surveillance
74% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: 8x5y1a
Windows
Silent Surveillance is a horror puzzle game where you monitor multiple security cameras to find anomalies. Stay vigilant—you wouldn't want to succumb to the lurking terror waiting for a single moment of distraction. Can you survive the night?
Why similar: Investigation 23.7%, Psychological 20.3%, Hidden Object 16.2%, Mystery 15.6%, Dark 8.6%
- #36 Black Lilies - Eternal Summer
76% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: Lab Rabbit Games ltd
Windows
Black Lilies - Eternal Summer is a yuri English Visual Novel made by one lone dev. Alice and her friends must try to find they way out of an endless time loop, or lose their minds trying. Drama, mystery, murder, and suffering awaits them... As does romance, if they can survive.
Why similar: Investigation 23.6%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Anime 15.7%, Dark 15.1%, Mystery 11.5%
- #37 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,215 reviews2015
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Psychological 27%, Visual Novel 25.9%, Mystery 18.6%, Anime 15.8%, Dark 10.7%
- #38 Downware
73% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Aridide Production
Windows
Where is Lucy? Your girlfriend is not at home at the time of your meeting. Could the Mark-13 cyclops, who enforces martial law, have something to do with it? Find out by diving into the dark and immersive world of Downware, a first-person Cyberpunk horror game.
Why similar: Investigation 18.6%, Psychological 17%, Point & Click 13.4%, Hidden Object 12.7%, Mystery 10.2%
- #39 BLOK 200: Prologue
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Experiments Field Studio
Windows
A visual novel in the Samosbor setting. You are a student of the technical college who wakes up in a stranger's living cell after your own death. You must come to terms with your new grim nature and face the cruel world far from the walls of your native incubator block.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.1%, Psychological 18%, Anime 16.4%, Lore-Rich 16.3%, Dark 11.6%
- #40 Reflection Link
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Secretive Sheep Games
Windows
Locked inside a facility that erases memory, seven people must recover what they've forgotten to earn their freedom. Explore escape-room puzzles, piece together broken relationships, and uncover the truth behind the sins none of them remember committing in this branching path visual novel.
Why similar: Investigation 16%, Mystery 15.9%, Point & Click 13.9%, Anime 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%
- #41 Born for the Light ~Wavelength Radiant Collapse~
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: qDrotPub: TERNOX
Windows
Endless world. Endless sky. Endless light. Will the shadows be cast upon all Children dwelling on the Treetops? Regardless, I spread my prosthetic wings, taking a leap of faith.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.4%, Mystery 13.9%, Anime 13.4%, Dark 13%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
- #42 Essence Bloom
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: Proxy Vision Projects
Windows
Essence Bloom is a linear, story-focused indie visual novel that allows the player to experience a world with beautiful cherry blossoms and fun times with friends....
Why similar: Psychological 28.5%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Anime 16.1%, Mystery 13.8%, Dark 13.6%
- #43 St. Mary's 1985
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ci8bit
Windows
You wake up on a red chair in the waiting room of a closed psychiatric hospital. You know this place. Clothes that aren't yours. A file with your name you don't remember reading. Your heartbeat rises. The memories come back. Not all of them want to be remembered. St. Mary's, 1985.
Why similar: Investigation 23.7%, Psychological 23.4%, Lore-Rich 15.8%, Mystery 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
- #44 The Test: Secrets of the Soul
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,554 reviews2023
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Why similar: Psychological 20%, Investigation 17.5%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Mystery 11.1%
- #45 outside the door
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 543 reviews2024
Dev: basandaika games
Windows
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office. You are about to figure out the stories of a few visitors without having a single memory of yourself.
Why similar: Psychological 27.7%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Anime 18.2%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Mystery 10%
- #46 Search
71% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: ParsonsGames
Windows
Play as a Park Ranger in Dreary Lake Provincial Park and unravel the mysteries your coworkers are trying to keep hidden. PSX Style First Person Thriller.
Why similar: Investigation 25.1%, Lore-Rich 23.6%, Dark 15.4%, Hidden Object 13.3%, Horror 9.4%
- #47 0.0035%
69% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: MANIA PRODUCTIONS
Windows
“0.0035%” is a mystery & horror game set in modern Japan. Players piece together fragmented clues and items to uncover hidden truths. No flashy action—only a shocking finale and deep, thought‑provoking exploration with multiple endings.
Why similar: Psychological 28.7%, Mystery 18.8%, Multiple Endings 12%, Horror 11.7%, Investigation 10.1%
- #48 Ubel
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Regularjax
Windows
A visual novel where eight participants are forced to play a death game where they have to vote every two hours. Who will survive? Who will betray? Who are the masterminds behind it all?
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.5%, Mystery 18.7%, Anime 17.9%, Psychological 15.1%, Multiple Endings 12%
- #49 Ashen Reverie
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Tidalspire
Windows
You’ve ignored the hallucinations for years. But after visiting a shrine in search of answers, a stranger claims she sees them too. Ashen Reverie is a visual novel about the consequences of chasing a myth too far.
Why similar: Psychological 17%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Mystery 12.7%, Anime 12%
- #50 Log.in
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 86 reviews2026
Dev: Little氷華
Windows
Log.in is a mystery-horror game where you explore a PC screen, digging through images, videos and files. Hidden somewhere in the system is the location of a girl being held captive. Your actions on the desktop will dramatically change the story and her fate.
Why similar: Mystery 21.8%, Point & Click 16.6%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Hidden Object 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%
- #51 Trials of Innocence
67% matchVery Positive92% of 1,556 reviews2025
Dev: 猫龙游戏
Windows
Median: 19.1 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Trials of Innocence is an indie courtroom detective game. Step into the shoes of the main character, rookie lawyer Luna Ray, and navigate her journey through the legal world. Unravel a shocking conspiracy that changes the fate of many, including herself, and confront her inner choices.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.5%, Investigation 17.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Mystery 12.3%, Anime 10.6%
- #52 Mystery Trackers: Paxton Creek Avenger Collector's Edition
71% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: Elephant GamesPub: BFG Entertainment
Windows
Someone's made it their personal vendetta to bring down the Mystery Trackers.
Why similar: Investigation 23%, Hidden Object 22.6%, Point & Click 16%, Mystery 14.8%, Dark 10.3%
- #53 Amelie
69% matchVery Positive92% of 442 reviews2021
Dev: Two and a Half Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
A psychological mystery yuri visual novel about a girl named Amelie. Forbidden from leaving the house, Amelie awaits the arrival of her long time penpal, Sofia, to her dear friend Lilika’s dismay. What secrets will Sofia unravel that were best kept buried?
Why similar: Psychological 24.6%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Mystery 12.9%, Anime 10.9%, Dark 9.7%
- #54 It Happened At Night - A New Nightmare
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Davidcrosdev
Windows
Psychological horror experience where exploration, tension, and environmental storytelling guide you through a decaying world full of secrets best left buried. What was meant to be just another exploration quickly unravels into something far more disturbing.
Why similar: Investigation 25.3%, Psychological 24.3%, Mystery 14.6%, Dark 13.9%, Horror 9.5%
- #55 Ghost In The Feed
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nuci
Windows
Dive into the supernatural atmosphere of Ghost in the Feed! Monitor cameras to spot spectral anomalies across haunted maps. Test your memory and vigilance to survive the night or succumb to paranormal dread!
Why similar: Hidden Object 20.9%, Mystery 18.5%, Psychological 16.5%, Investigation 14.7%, Puzzle 9.3%
- #56 Night Loops
67% matchVery Positive89% of 157 reviews2023
Dev: JiaquariumPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits. Tend to guests, explore their dreams, and lose your sense of Self – time and again. In this dark, labyrinthine adventure, unravel the path to the truth below.
Why similar: Psychological 23.5%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Anime 12.5%, Dark 12.2%
- #57 Deep Fog Signals
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Symmetry Break Studio
Windows
Stuck in an outpost deep in a sea of toxic fog, your crew has been decimated, you're cut off from the outside world, and oxygen is running out. Use limited bandwidth to coordinate unstable crewmates, conduct esoteric research that could change the world, and interpret strange signals from the deep.
Why similar: Investigation 22.6%, Mystery 15.4%, Point & Click 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Lore-Rich 9%
- #58 and yet, we dream
65% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: arda bolat
Windows · Mac · Linux
a psychological visual novel where you investigate the souls of the dead. spend time with them, analyze their past, file reports to decide their eternal fate.
Why similar: Psychological 22.1%, Lore-Rich 16.5%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Mystery 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.6%
- #59 Do Not Disturb: Untold Tales
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hollow Harpy
Windows
Do Not Disturb is a 2D narrative psychological horror game. It is set in the heart of the Amazon, in the city of Manaus—a place filled with mysticism and legends, where the roots of a forgotten people still remain alive.
Why similar: Investigation 32.3%, Lore-Rich 25.3%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Mystery 8%, Puzzle 7.2%